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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
South Kensington Campus
Full Time
Apr 2026
3 Year
The Department is actively involved in a number of Centres for Doctoral Training, such as the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Healthcare (AI4Health), the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence (STAI), and the EPSRC Centre for High Performance Embedded and Distributed Systems (HiPEDS). Every year between 50-70 successful applicants are accepted for the PhD programme in the Department. We have a wide variety of scholarships for PhD students, including funding from research councils, research projects, industry, and teaching scholarships. More than 80% of our PhD students receive funding.
The research in the Department is organised into nine themes, each reflecting common research interests. Each theme has a number of research groups that provide the infrastructure for targeted research and support for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Academics are not limited to just one theme and many work collaboratively across a number of themes.
It normally takes between three and four years of full-time work to complete. It is also possible to undertake a PhD part time, over five to six years.
